January 3, 2014

Police investigated a "zombie" attack in Redruth, which turned out to be two friends off their faces on hooch and foaming at the mouths. A woman in Exeter said her horse's mane was been platted by an unseen being (check yer hands, love – it's probably you) and a frightened woman in Ilfracombe rang 999 to report finding a stick "which she can only describe as something maybe used in witchcraft." Or maybe just a stick.

South-West England is a fast diminishing outpost of Celtic culture in the formerly sceptered isle. Some still speak a variant of Gaelic called Cornish. This is the home of Tintagel and Camelot if it existed. The ancestral home of King Arthur and perhaps the land of Faery. I'm not surprised there are more extra-ordinary events being reported here.